How the Great Circle earthworks were saved

3:09 PM,
Aug. 28, 2013

Written by

Dr. Richard Shiels

Editor's note: This is the first of three columns on the Newark Earthworks appearing on Thursdays.

Let me tell you a story that will make you proud to live in Newark or Heath.

Some 2,000 years ago, ancestors of today's American Indians built incredible earthworks across the southern half of Ohio. The Newark Earthworks was one of more than 600 sites with geometric enclosures: circles, squares, octagons and rectangles defined by walls of earth in which ancient people gathered for events and ceremonies. ...